Combined screen and shutter.



A. N. 'EATON.

COMBINED SCREEN AND SHUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED APILZI, I913. Patented May 11, 1915.

' To all whom it may Camera:

" STATES PT I ERT N. EATON, OF NEWBURYPORT, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMBINED SCREEN AND SHUTTER.

icence.

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented May 11, 1915.

Application filed April 21, 1913. Serial No. 32,466.

Be it known that I, ALBERT N. Ea'fbfifof Newburyport, in the county ofEssex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Combined Screens and Shutters, of whichthe following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specifica tion, inexplaining itsnature.

My invention relates to a device that may be placed in an open window inthe manner of an ordinary screen and perform at all times the usualfunction of a screen, but

has combined with it a shutter or shutters that may be .used to excludelight and air provide in a device of the above character an arrangementwhereby the screen and shutter combined with it, whether shut or open,will effectually close the opening in the window; to provide, also,whereby the screening may be a fixed immovable portion of the device sothat ordinary wire screening may be employed unsubjected to any bendingor distorting influence whic would quickly tend to break the same; andfurther to provide whereby the shutter or shutters may when partiallyclosed shut out a relatively large amount of light without materiallydiminishing the passage of air as in the use of an ordinary blind.

My invention can best be seen and understood by reference to thedrawings in Figure 1- shows the device in front elevation with theshutters closed. Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the device with theshutters closed. Fig. 3 is a section taken on the line 33 of Fig. 1, andFig. 4 is the same as Fig. 3 excepting that the shutters are shown in anopen position.

1 represents a frame rectangular in form and adapted to be inserted in awindow in the manner of the frame to an ordinary screen. This frame is,also, preferably provided like many screens with extension side pieces 2slidably connected with the main body of the frame in the customarymanner. Fastened to the frame 1 over the opening therein is screeningconsisting of sections 3 spaced to leave an opening between the edges ofadjacent ections or between the edgeof a section hrldi-the frame, asshown at 5. The sections .3 lie in the same plane and can accordingly beapplied to the frame in the manner of ordinary screening. I

prefer to employ a number of sections leavfect is obtained by trunnions8 extending from the ends of the hubs and journaled to turn within theframe. Each hub 6 is of a general cylindrical form, or, in other words,has such form and adaptation that whateverthe turned position of theshutter may be the hub will at alltimes eflectually close the openingwithin which it lies, thereby cooperating with the screen in entirelyclosing the opening in the frame.

From the hubs of the shutters contained in the respective openings inthe screen there extend slats 9. These slats are offset with relation tothe centers of the hubs so that they may close over the sections ofscreening adjacent the openings in which the various hubs are contained.I prefer that the hubs of the shutters shall eachjbe provided with twoslats extending in opposite directions inside and outside the screen andlying in parallel planes each ofiset with relation to the center of thehub so that they may close in reverse directions on to the inner andouter faces of the screen or sections thereof adjacent the openings oron to the frame as the case may be, substantially as shown in Fig. 3.

In order that all the shutters may be operated simultaneously for eitherclosing the same or for holding the same in an open or partially closedposition,they are connected by a bar 10 having pivotal connection withclips 11 secured to the outer edges of the slats on one side of thescreen.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States 1. A. combined screen and shuttercomprising a frame, screening applied thereto in spaced sections lyingin the same plane with an opening between the sections, a shutter havinga hub mounted to turn within said opening on an axis lying within theplane of said sections, said hub having slats extending therefrom inreverse directions and lying in parallel planes offset with relation tothe center of said hub whereby said slats may occupy an open position orclose having also slats extending therefrom ofi- 10 against saidsections. set with relation to the centers thereof .2. A combined screenor shutter c0mpris= whereby said slats may occupy open posiing a frame,screening applied thereto in tions or close against said sections. 5several spaced sections lying in the same i plane With an openingbetween adjacent ALBERT EATON sections, shutters having hubs mounted toWitnesses: 4 turn within said openings on axes lying EDWARD E. CRAWSHAW,within the plane of said sections, said hubs ARTHUR WrrmNG'roN.

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